91导航

Dr David Foster

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Lecturer in Film

Areas of interest

I am primarily a visual artist. I make artwork about my experience of and relationship with place, land, and the natural world. I work mainly with photography, especially double-exposure photography, but also with video, film, text, and found objects. In recent years my practice has been funded by several grants from Arts Council England, and solo exhibitions of my work have been held in Oxford, Suffolk, Dorset and Sussex.

My teaching at 91导航 is informed by my longstanding interest in art cinema, experimental and visionary film, and what might be called psychogeographic film. Filmmakers whose work I am particularly interested in, and have taught on here at 91导航, include Michael Haneke, Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Patrick Keiller, Stan Brakhage and Peter Gidal.

I have wide and eclectic research interests, and I have published in the areas of film, photography, visual art, theatre, literature and music, often in connection to the work of Samuel Beckett.

Teaching

I teach (or have taught) on the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules:

  • Film Forms and Cultures (Convenor)
  • Wildlife Documentary: Ecology and Representation (Convenor)
  • Dissertation: Film and Theatre (Convenor)
  • Creative Research Project (Convenor)
  • Academic Research Skills (Convenor)
  • Extended Essay (Convenor)
  • Independent Essay (Convenor)
  • Documentary
  • Screen Storytelling and Criticism
  • Approaches to Film
  • Approaches to Television
  • Film Practice or Dissertation
  • Dissertation or Practical Project
  • Advanced Practical Project: Film/TV
  • World Cinema: Presenting and Representing Reality
  • Film Authorship
  • Alternative Forms in Film
  • Introduction to Film
  • Introduction to Television

Selected publications

Foster, D. (2014), 鈥楢tonality and Eternity: The Musical Language of 颁辞尘别虂诲颈别鈥, in SJ. Bailes and N. Till (eds.), Beckett and Musicality (Farnham: Ashgate Press), pp. 85-105.聽

Foster, D. (2014), 鈥楾hreshold Faces: The Physiognomy of 颁辞尘别虂诲颈别鈥, Moving Image Review and Art Journal, 3:2, pp. 194-207. ISSN: 2045-6298.聽

Foster, D. (2013), 鈥楾he Artist-Photographer and the Problem of Commentary鈥, in R. Miller, J. Carson and T. Wilkie (eds.), The Reflexive Photographer (Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc), pp. 227-61.聽

Foster, D. (2013), 鈥楧anse Macabre: 颁辞尘别虂诲颈别鈥檚 Cinematic Antecedents鈥, Studies in European Cinema, 10:2, pp. 89-102. ISSN: 1741-1548.聽

Foster, D. (2013), 鈥楤etween Beyonds: 笔濒补测鈥檚 Urns and their Exhabitants鈥, Samuel Beckett Today /Aujourd鈥檋ui, 25, pp. 213-25. ISSN: 0927-3131.聽

Foster, D. (2012), 鈥楽patial Aesthetics in the Film Adaptation of Samuel Beckett鈥檚 颁辞尘别虂诲颈别鈥, Screen, 53:2, pp. 105-17. ISSN: 0036-9543.聽

Foster, D. (2012), 鈥楤ecoming Present, Becoming Absent: Movement and Visual Form in the Film Adaptation of 颁辞尘别虂诲颈别鈥, Journal of Beckett Studies, 21:2, pp. 157-80. ISSN: 0309-5207.聽

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